Tucker: The Man and His Dream
- Jeff Bridges: Preston Thomas Tucker
- Joan Allen: Vera Tucker
- Martin Landau: Abe Karatz
- Frederic Forrest: Eddie Dean
- Makoto Iwamatsu: Jimmy Sakuyama
- Elias Koteas: Alex Tremulis
- Christian Slater: Junior
- Nina Siemaszko: Marilyn Lee Tucker
- Corin Nemec: Noble Tucker
- Dean Stockwell: Howard Hughes
Tucker ( Alternative title: Tucker - The Man and His Dream Car; Original Title: Tucker: The Man and His Dream) is an American biopic by Francis Ford Coppola from the year 1988.
Action
Preston Thomas Tucker was shortly after the Second World War the ambition to build a technically perfect as possible car. He attaches great importance to the safety of the vehicle, so he asks disc brakes and seat belts. Tucker draws plans and organizes the construction of a car factory. The established car industry is trying to prevent him from realizing his plans to save the cost of developing their own innovations. So he sabotaged his work director and changes behind his back important design features.
The tax investigation (SEC) is used as a means to gather evidence of mismanagement, fraud and tax evasion or produce. When he learns of his planned arrest, he returns with his new car into two police cars and a race turns to the assembled journalists to the court. In the trial it is not possible for the prosecution, the reasoning Tucker, that his model is feasible to destroy in the eyes of the jurors jury. Just in time for closing arguments 51 copies of the Tucker Torpedo are prepared ready and in front of the courthouse.
It comes to sensational acquittal. However, the plant was closed due to the intervention of the U.S. president. But Tucker's idea has begun to assert themselves.
Reviews
Rita Kempley wrote in the Washington Post of 12 August 1988, the film was " rather flat " ( " rather flat" ). Jeff Bridges is the " perfect " cast his role.
The lexicon of international film wrote that the " vivacious " film was " an idealized portrait" and a " solid -like confessional farewell to the irretrievably to an end, the American dream ' from the inventive self-made man ". He reflective " in the form of an enthusiastic, larger than life Biography " " Coppola's own dreams and struggles against the constraints of the industry. "
Awards
The film was nominated in 1989 in the categories Best Supporting Actor ( Martin Landau ), Best Art Direction ( Dean Tavoularis and Armin Ganz) and Best Costume Design ( Milena Canonero ) for an Oscar. Martin Landau won the 1989 Golden Globe Award and the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award. Dean Tavoularis won in 1989 for Best Production Design BAFTA Award.
Dean Stockwell won the 1988 National Society of Film Critics Award and the New York Film Critics Circle Award. Joe Jackson was nominated in 1989 for a Grammy Award. The film was nominated in 1989 for the Casting Society of America Award.
Background
The film was shot in California, including in San Francisco and Oakland, rotated. His cost of production was estimated at about 25 million U.S. dollars. The film played in theaters in the USA about a 19.65 million U.S. dollars.